Sentences with phrase «evil upon children»

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Jeremiah, pouring out before God everything he felt, poured out his vindictiveness: «Bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction»; (Jeremiah 17:18) «Deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle....

By unnecessarily and cruelly inflicting suffering and death upon children / infants as the collateral damage of god's decision to exterminate their parents when these children / infants were incapable of a free will choice to engage evil or reject god.

But, my listener, would you dare, as a father (and I feel confident that you have a lofty conception of the meaning of this name, a responsible conception of the charge which it lays upon you) would you dare, as a father, to say to your child as you sent him out into the world, «Go, with your mind at ease, my child, pay attention to what the many approve and what the world rewards, for that is the Good, but what the world punishes, that is evil.

But watch, lest any of you look with disdain upon the children of Abraham because they have fallen on these evil days of traditional barrenness.

45So that you will become the children of your Father who is in Heaven, for his sun rises on the good and upon the evil and his rain descends on the just and on the unjust.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

What he does to bring harm to another might just come back to his children and he will pay for the evil bile he is foisting upon all of us citizens, disgracing our country for his dreamed of chance for be elected again and to again live off the government's payroll.

It came as a natural consequence of the great evil that was upon the earth, and specifically in response to the evil of the sons of God having children with the daughters of men.

Upon threat of banishment by the church, an English farmer leaves his colonial plantation, relocating his wife and five children to a remote plot of land on the edge of an ominous forest - within which lurks an unknown evil.

For his only outing as director, actor Charles Laughton decided upon this warped fable of good vs evil, the story of an insane «preacher» who marries and murders a widow and chases her children down for $ 10,000 in hidden treasure.

The «monsters» that each victim becomes aware of upon hearing their fate are some of the nastiest things I've ever seen, and the ghost's lullaby-esque cell phone ring is equally disturbing in that «Village of the Damned» evil children sort of way.

It is a child with a mark upon his tongue, The Chosen One, who was foretold to rid the land of the evil clans.